Abu Dhabi: More than 1,250 school bus drivers and supervisors have benefited from a traffic awareness programme launched by the Traffic and Patrols Directorate at Abu Dhabi Police. The programme aimed to improve school transport safety standards for pupils starting the 2014-2015 academic year.
The programme, titled “Student Safety is our Prerogative”, is part of the department’s Back to School programme and is coordinated with Emirates Transport in Abu Dhabi.
Major Salah Abdullah Al Hemairi, Acting Head of Al Ain Traffic Section at the Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate, said that as part of implementing safety efforts, the traffic department has stepped up its traffic patrol presence at prime locations across Al Ain. Al Hemairi also praised efforts being made to enhance and modernise the School Road area in the city in time for the new school year.
Speaking during one of the lectures, Lieutenant Nasser Khalifa Al Shamsi, Acting Director of Public Relations Section, said it is vitally important for school bus drivers and supervisors to abide by traffic laws and rules and do everything they can to ensure the safe transportation of pupils.
